If you don’t run, you rust.
TOM PETTYThere goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
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I wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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